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Colonial Smock Windmill at Vineyard Haven

Reading List
by
Theodore R. Hazen

Agricultural History:

Chapter 4, The Agricultural Revival, 1820-1860, pages 122-161, Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860, by Avery Odelle Craven, Ph.D. The University of Illinois, 1926, Peter Smith, Gloucester, Mass., 1965.

Flour Milling Technology:

Oliver Evans and the Beginning of Automated Milling in Maryland and the Upper South, 1783-1812,
pages 11-23, by G. Terry Sharrer, Smithsonian Institution, Eno, Volume 7, Special Issue, Papers from the seminar on water wheels and windmills organized by The International Molinoligical Society (T.I.M.S.), held in Durham, North Carolina, July 1978, in the Bicentennial year of West Point on the Eno River.

Chapter 1. The Beginnings of Wheat-Growing and Flour-milling in Colonial Times, section 4, Maryland and Virginia, pages 27-31, Chapter 2, The Eastern Flour-Milling and Marketing Centers 1790-1860, section 2, The Beginnings of Large-Scale Milling in Richmond, pages 47-53, Chapter 3, The Rise of Flour-Milling and Wheat-Growing in the Middle West and the Changes in Milling prior to 1870, section 4, Milling Processes and Methods (to 1870), pages 93-101,The Development of the Flour-Milling Industry in the United States, by Charles Byron Kuhlman, Ph.D., 1895, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929, Augustus M. Kelly, Clifton 1973.

Colonial Milling Technology:

Chapter "Colonial Water Mills in the Wooden Age" written by Charles Howell included in America's Wooden Age; Aspects of its Early Technology, edited by Brooke Hindle, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Tarrytown, New York, 1975.

The Mill, At Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills and A Brief History of Milling,
by Charles Howell and Allen Keller, with a Forward by Rex Wailes, Sleepy Hollow Restorations,
Tarrytown, New York, 1977.

Oliver Evans (flour milling & steam engines):

Forward by Eugene S. Ferguson, pages iii-ix, The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide, by Oliver Evans, reprint from first edition 1795, 15 editions to 1860, Oliver Evans Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology (S.I.A.), Philadelphia, The Oliver Evans Press, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1990.

Oliver Evans, Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution, Eugene S. Ferguson, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Inc., Hagley Museum, Greenville, Delaware, 1980.

Oliver Evans, A Chronicle of Early American Engineering, by Greville Bathe & Dorothy Bathe, Historical Society of Pennsylvainia, Philadelphia, 1935. reprinted by Arno Press, New York, New York, 1972, Ayer Co., Salem, New Hampshire,1984.

The Miller (in folklore):

The Miller in Word and Story
, by Holger Olof Nygard, Duke University, pages 61-73, Eno, Volume 7, Special Issue, Papers from the seminar on water wheels and windmills organized by The International Molinoligical Society (T.I.M.S.), held in Durham, North Carolina, July 1978, in the Bicentennial year of West Point on the Eno River.

The Miller in Eighteenth Century Virginia
, by Henry Magee, Colonial Williamsburg foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1958, reprint by Thomas K. Ford, Williamsburg Craft Series, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1958.

Little Old Mills, by Marion Nicoll Rawson, E. D. Dutten and Co., Inc., New York, 1935, reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.

Millwrighting:

The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide
, by Oliver Evans, forward by Eugene S. Ferguson, reprint from first edition 1795, 15 editions to 1860, Oliver Evans Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology (S.I.A.), Philadelphia, The Oliver Evans Press, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1990.

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930, Volume One: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine, by Louis C. Hunter, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1979.

Steam Power Technology:

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930, Volume Two: Steam Power
, by Louis C. Hunter, Hagley Museum and Library, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1985.

Water Power Technology:

Chapter 5, The Emergence of the Iron Industry Water Wheel, circa 1750 to circa 1850, pages 266-320, Stronger Than A Hundred Men, A History of the Vertical Water Wheel, by Terry S. Reynolds, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1983.

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930, Volume One: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine, by Louis C. Hunter, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1979.

Millstone Technology:

The Versatile Millstone, Workhorse of Many Industries
, by Jon A. Sass, The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, 1984.

Wind Power Technology:

The Fischer Windmill.
Elmhurst, Illinois, by Philip E. Vierling, Outdoors, Illinois, 1994.

Windmills and Millwrighting, by Stanley Freese, Cambridge University Press 1957, A.S. Barnes & Co., Cranbury, New Jersey, 1972, D & Charles 1974.



Blacksmithing:

The Village Blacksmith,
written and illustrated by Aldren A. Watson, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1968.

Foxfire 5, ironmaking, blacksmithing, flintlock rifles, bear hunting and other affairs of plain living, edited with an introduction by Eliot Wiggington, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1979.

Chapter: Blacksmithing, Forgotten Crafts, A Practical Guide to Traditional Skills, by John Seymour, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.

The Blacksmith (in folklore):

The Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: An Account of his Life & Times & of his Craft,
by Aldren A. Watson, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, Williamsburg Craft Series, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1971, reprinted Thomas K. Ford, editor, Williamsburg Craft Series, Colonial Williamsburg, 1978.

Wheelwrighting:

The Village Blacksmith,
written and illustrated by Aldren A. Watson, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1968.

Chapter: Wheelwrighting, Forgotten Crafts, A Practical Guide to Traditional Skills, by John Seymour, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.

Iron Making:

The Village Blacksmith,
written and illustrated by Aldren A. Watson, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1968.

Foxfire 5, ironmaking, blacksmithing, flintlock rifles, bear hunting and other affairs of plain living, edited with an introduction by Eliot Wiggington, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1979.

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